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2008-12-29
美国科学计量学的政策导向
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昨天帮一个读者查一些文章，无意间看到这篇文章，难怪美国这两年取得这么大的进展，吸引了Newman和Hirsch这么一大批物理学家来从事这方面的研究，下文是在science发表的一个短讯，2006年的，我才知道，作为科学计量学的博士，惭愧啊！
NSF begins a push to measure societal impacts of researchWhen politicians talk about getting a big bang for the buck out of public investment in research, they assume it’s possible to measure the bang. Last year, U. S. presidential science adviser John Marburger disclosed a dirty little secret: we don’t know nearly enough about the innovation process to measure the impact of past R&D investments, much less predict which areas of research will result in the largest payoff to society(Science, 29 April 2005, P. 617). He challenged social scientists to do better. Next month, the National Science Foundation(NSF) will invite the community to pick up the gauntlet. A Dear colleague letter from David Lightfoot, head of NSF’s social, behavioral, and economic sciences(SBE) directorate, will describe an initiative tentatively dubbed “the science of science policy.” NSF is also holding three workshops for researchers to lay the intellectual foundations for the initiative. By fall, NSF hopes to have $6.8 million from congress as a down payment on what Lightfoot envisions as “a significant program” that would eventually support a half-dozen large research centers at U.S universities and scores of individual grants. In its 2007 budget request, released in February, NSF says the initiative will give policymakers the ability to reliably evaluate return received from past R&D investments and to forecast likely returns from future investments.” Lughtfoot cautions against expecting too much precision. “One shouldn’t overstate this goal.” he says. “Nobody is under the illusion that we’re going to be able to hand these decisions over to the computers.” But he believes that it should be possible to develop “a more evidence-based understanding of what happens to our R&D investments.”NSF officials have outlined a series of steps toward that goal. On 17 to 18 May, some two dozen cognitive scientists, social psychologists, and engineers will discuss the roots of individual and group creativity and innovation in science. On 1 to 2 June, a second workshop will explore the organizational components---how cultural, political, demographic, economic, and scientific patterns affect the creation and application of knowledge. In July, an international group of exports will suggest ways to improve existing surveys that measure various indicators of a nation’s technological prowess, from publications to public understanding of science. If the funding materializes, Lightfoot foresees a collection of interdisciplinary research centers, focused either on a particular discipline or an important technology. “to date, the criteria most commonly used---citation analysis or other bibliometrics---are scienceneutral and field-independent,” he says “that strikes me as a mistake and a significant limitation. Chemistry and archaeology have different scientific cultures, and those differences affect innovation.” Lightfoot is in the process of hiring someone to coordinate the initiative within SBE and across NSF. The White House is also forming an interagency task force to oversee the initiative.
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